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...both should also understand that there are tools that can make the task easier and more effective, chiefly filters that bar access to offensive or dangerous content and monitors that tell you where the browser has been browsing. America Online, despite all the odious get-rich-quick or get-horny-quick e-mail that it can't seem to keep out of my own mailbox, has been particularly effective in helping parents give their children an online experience under the firm guidance of its editors: a "kids-only" AOL account blocks young users from all but full-time-monitored chat...
Many parents don't realize that a simple click on the "history" tab on a browser tool bar will produce a list of links to every site the computer has visited recently. It's true that any canny 13-year-old knows how to delete potentially incriminating evidence from the history files. Already, though, there are several programs available, such as Cyber Snoop (at least the manufacturer doesn't euphemize), that create a tamperproof database--a trail of bread crumbs, as it were--so parents can examine every Web address the computer has visited since the last time Dad checked...
...tried the Rocket eBook, which has a library of 486 books that can be downloaded from the Barnes & Noble website. The device can stand alone or sit in a cradle that attaches to your PC; your browser then becomes the way you find stuff to read--either books at B&N or websites whose content, images and all, can be downloaded free...
Microsoft claims that Office 2000 permits "universal viewing" by all browsers, even Netscape's. But some of its goodies somehow work best with Microsoft's own browser, Internet Explorer 5. Other features, the company notes, will be greatly enhanced by--you guessed it--Windows 2000. And that also makes me shudder for Microsoft. But not in an empathetic...
Once your site is up and running, put your domain name (in Hanson's case seafood now.com on everything you send out, including business cards and invoices. If a new version of an Internet browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer is released, upgrade your site so that new users have an easy time finding your virtual door. Don't go too heavy on graphics; the more complicated a website, the longer it takes to access it. "As soon as people have to download, they disappear," says Mark Bozzini, CEO of LinkExchange, an online marketing-services provider based...